Massachusetts Farms & Farmers

The following organizations have resources and information to help with your local Farm to School program.

Massachusetts Farm to School Project
Mass. Farm to School Project works offers matchmaking assitance for farmers and food service directors. We assist farmers in looking for an appropriate school customers.

List of Massachusetts farmers interested in school customers.


Community Involved in Sustaining Agriculture
CISA has connections to 130 farmers and sponsors farm tours and publishes farm guides.
For more information contact:
Margaret Christie
Community Involved in Sustaining Agriculture, Program Coordinator
1 Sugarloaf St. S.
Deerfield, MA 01373
Phone: (413) 665-7100
Fax: (413) 665-7101
margaret@buylocalfood.com

Berkshire Grown
Farmer support organization that is getting involved with farm to school through arranging to sell to local private schools.

Farmers
There are 96 farmers’ markets in Massachusetts. Roughly half of the markets are part of the Federation of Massachusetts’s Farmers’ Markets, a collaborative non-profit that works closely with agencies such as the UMASS Cooperative Extension and the Massachusetts Department of Agriculture.